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Paperback. Pub Date :2009-03-05 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 'Last December. a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife ...' Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double.While everyone else may be fooled. Leo knows she cannot be his real wife. and sets off on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love.With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey - who believes himself to be a secret agent who can control the weather - Leo attempts to unravel this mystery.Why has his wife been replaced What do the secret workings of The Royal Society of Meteorology have to do with it Who is the enigmatic Dr.Tzvi Gal-Chen. and is he. or maybe his wife. or perhaps even Harvey. at the centre of it all From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia. Leo's erratic qu...
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: Imagine what it might be like to realize that the person you love is, in fact, not the person you love but a doppelgänger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of Atmospheric Disturbances. David Byrne's infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo's reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo's journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema's marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo's obsession as his wife's whereabouts. (Think Vertigo but directed by Charlie Kaufman.) Make no mistake: this is dizzying debut fiction, bursting at the spine with beautifully articulated ideas about love, yes, but also--and with maddening resonance--about the private wars love forces us to wage with ourselves. Be sure to keep a pen or pencil handy: it's impossible to resist underlining prose this good. --Anne Bartholomew
About the Author
RIVKA GALCHEN is a recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Berlin Prize, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, which selected her for its list of 20 under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008.
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- PublisherHARPER PERENNIAL
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0007276850
- ISBN 13 9780007276851
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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